Chapter 3: The Streets of Mos Espa

Oh dear. After such a strong episode 2, this series is already flailing and fumbling around with a frankly dull and dragging filler episode.

It's not unwatchable, but only because of Morrison and Wen, who do their usual purposeful best with the meagre material. Danny Trejo is in it too, but get just a few lines of cookie-cutter dialogue that he can't do much with. There are a couple of the welcome callbacks to the original movies, including a spider-droid that's animated to look like 1980s stop-motion, a nice little touch.

But everything else is pretty much a hovertrain wreck. The writing feels like a bare outline that never got fleshed out with detail or dialog, and every scene is dragged out far beyond its content. Very little actually happens beyond introducing new characters and plot points, and oh dear, those characters.

Say hello to the Hover Scooter Cockney Cyborg Teens, and yet, that's exactly as awful and cringe-inducing as it sounds. Even the rancor is a moody teenager. Sure, there's an imposing wookie bounty hunter but he only gets one plodding, insipid and mild action scene.

In that vein, the character of Fett has been so bowdlerised here as to be almost unrecognisable. Mercy taken to extreme is just weakness, and that's what we see here. Has Boba taken some sort of vow not to kill that we missed?

The lowlight of the episode though has to be a genuinely awful "speeder" chase scene that fails on multiple levels. It's clearly intended as a homage to 1970s car chases, and does have some callbacks to those, but it's dreadfully badly implemented. Slow, dragging, with shockingly shoddy effects and zero excitement or peril. Oh dear, and I think that was meant to be the big showcase of the episode.

When it all thankfully came to an end and we got the storyboard art, I was left wondering how they'd managed to fill so much time with so little content. It's a poor advert for continuing to watch, although I'm sure we all will anyway.

Boba Fett faces up to a fight to keep his territory.

I personally find this one to be a so so episode that isn't particularly memorable.

It starts with a big and lazily written exposition dump explained via dialogue in the opening scene. What follows are a series of fairly lacklustre exchanges between Boba Fett and various other characters. Most of the scenes set in the present are quite simplistic, with bland dialogue and devoid of any real intrigue. I did not find any of the new characters introduced particularly engaging. It seems more like a tick box exercise to appeal to a younger audience.

The plot (I think ) is attempting to build up to a big conflict between Fett and another faction for control of Tatooine's criminal world, but there is very little suspense developed.

The flashback scenes with Tuskens are the most interesting as it does give Fett some additional motivation to fight the biker gang. I also enjoyed the baby Rancor scene which hopefully might lead on to something good in the upcoming chapters.

No performances really stand out for me. Temuera Morrison is a solid lead action hero, but the role has not called for any acting challenges yet.

Visually it looks impressive with all the state of the art technology used for the landscapes of Tatooine, but the action spectacle was for me largely forgettable.

This was just abysmal. Too many things wrong to count. This episode will go down in infamy. Should end up with around a 6.0 rating here or worse when it's all said and done. The speederbike chase is as bad as anything Star Wars has ever endured. Shameful mess.

This is the worse episode until now.

Star Wars is a ww2 with a medieval setting sci-fi, the '70 harleys inspired speeders, with those awful colors, where so out of sync with the theme of the movie it hurt your eyes. And the power puff team, no acting skills and a bad script, "there are no jobs, so we steal water because he charges so much", really? That's the best you could do?

Also the speeder chase looked bad, don't know why, but it just didn't click.

Where - where in the whole Star Wars universe, has anything like the four bedazzled power rangers and their bedazzled scooters appeared?!

Ha! Ha! Ha!

So *lame*, and a great big fail.